§ 49-5-24. Interagency Efforts to Gather and Share Comprehensive Data; Legislative Findings; State-Wide System for Sharing Data Regarding Care and Protection of Children; Interagency Data Protocol; Interagency Agreements; Waivers From Certain Federal Regulations
In an effort to improve the availability and quality of programs and services for the protection of children and youth, the General Assembly supports interagency efforts to gather comprehensive data and to actively share and disseminate data among those agencies responsible for making informed decisions regarding the treatment, care, security, and protection of children within […]
§ 49-5-9. Use of Public and Private Institutions and Agencies; Inspections; Examination and Control of Children Not in Department’s Facilities
The department is authorized to make use of law enforcement detention, supervisory, medical, educational, and other public or private facilities, institutions, and agencies within the state for the purposes of this article; provided, however, that this shall not give the department authority to transfer any child or youth under its custody and control to any […]
§ 49-5-12. Licensing and Inspection of Child Welfare Agencies; Standards; Revocation or Refusal of License; Penalties; Violations
As used in this Code section, the term “child welfare agency” means any child-caring institution, child-placing agency, children’s transition care center, or maternity home. All child welfare agencies shall be licensed or commissioned annually by the department in accordance with procedures, standards, rules, and regulations to be established by the board. The board shall develop […]
§ 49-5-12.1. Penalties for Violation of Child Welfare Agency Laws and Regulations
Unless otherwise provided in subsection (r) of Code Section 49-5-12, any person who violates the provisions of Code Section 49-5-12 or who hinders, obstructs, or otherwise interferes with any representative of the department in the discharge of that person’s official duties in making inspections as provided in Code Section 49-5-12 or in investigating complaints as […]
§ 49-5-12.2. Immunity From Liability
Any caregiver or other entity under contract with the department shall be immune from civil liability as a result of a caregiver’s approval of the participation of a child, who is in the custody of the department, in an age or developmentally appropriate activity, so long as such caregiver or other entity under contract with […]
§ 49-5-12.3. Definitions; Annual Inspection of Child Welfare Agency
As used in this Code section, the term: “Affected agency” means any state agency, department, division, or office which requires a license or commission from the department for child welfare agencies, including, but not limited to, the Division of Family and Children Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental […]
§ 49-5-13. Private Child Care Learning Centers Not Required to Meet Federal Adult-Child Ratio
Nothing in this article or any rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall be construed to require that private child care learning centers maintain a ratio of adults to children under care that is commensurate with any federal requirement concerning such adult to child ratio. History. Ga. L. 1970, p. 720, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, […]
§ 49-5-1. Short Title
This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Children and Youth Act.” History. Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 49/HB 79. The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “This article shall be known […]
§ 49-5-2. Purpose of Article
The purpose of this article is to promote, safeguard, and protect the well-being and general welfare of children and youth of this state through a comprehensive and coordinated program of public child welfare and youth services, providing for: Social services and facilities for children and youths who require care, control, protection, treatment, or rehabilitation and […]
§ 49-5-3. Definitions
As used in this article, the term: “Age or developmentally appropriate” means activities or items that are generally accepted as suitable for children of the same chronological age or level of maturity or that are determined to be developmentally-appropriate for a child, based on the development of cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral capacities that are […]